1878 – Vaseline is granted a patent (U.S. Patent 127,568)
1908 – 1st passenger flight in an airplane.
1918 – Sunday baseball is made legal in Washington, D.C.
1927 – “Ain’t She Sweet?” hits #1 on the singles chart by Ben Bernie.
1940 – Boston’s Jimmie Foxx hits a home run that goes over Comiskey Park’s left field roof.
1942 – US Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms.
1945 – US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered.
1949 – President Harry Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral.
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island.
1969 – Last Chevrolet Corvair built.
1976 – Lowell Thomas ends 48 years as radio network reporter.
1984 – 19th Academy of Country Music Awards:Alabama, Lee Greenwood, and Janie Fricke win.
1987 – Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000.
1990 – Dow Jones average hits a record 2,821.53.
1998 – Seinfeld’s final 2-part episode “The Finale” airs on NBC-TV to 76.3 million viewers with commercials priced at $2 million for 30 seconds.
2005 – Former USS American(CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the US Navy, deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. Largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.
2012 – Stanford University scientists develop prototype bionic eye.
2018 – Melania Trump, wife of President Donald Trump, is treated in hospital for a benign kidney condition.
2022 – US records one million COVID-19 deaths, with The White House ordering flags to fly at half mask through the weekend.
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